Romney cedes Ohio TV airwaves to Obama (at least for now)

[highplainsdem]

Source: LA Times

CLEVELAND -- If you switched on a television in northern Ohio this week, chances are you saw an ad for President Obama’s reelection campaign. Or two. Or three. Over and over again.

Mitt Romney? Nothing.

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But Romney’s temporary withdrawal has been striking here in northern Ohio, where what had looked to TV viewers for months like an evenly matched, if annoying, ad battle transformed into a lopsided all-Obama-all-the-time promotion campaign, with news coverage of the Democratic National Convention amplifying the president’s message.

The Romney vacuum was especially noteworthy given that early voting in Ohio starts in less than four weeks.

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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-obama-ohio-ads-20120906,0,4157574.story

[Kolesar]

1. Heard on Thom Hartmann they are going to start the "gay marriage sh!t" soon

His guest said it yesterday or Tuesday.

[JRLeft]

3. They have to run on bigotry, racism, xenophobia, and hate. Their policies are shit.

[onehandle]

13. It's already started...

Being 'tested' during the DNC in NC.

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/09/ad_supporting_romney_claims_ob.html

[nanabugg]

17. No, Obama is NOT trying to force same-sex marriage on the country...

Obama is not forcing anyone to enter into a same-sex marriage. Obama is merely allowing people to marry whom they want and keep the government out of our bedrooms.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. Right. Frame it as "Equality of marriage" and "Freedom to marry" and "honoring commitment", etc.

[snooper2]

21. ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL

they are going to have to get a lot more creative than that LOL..

How about two men kissing and a building blowing up in the background or something, maybe a whole city imploding LOL

[Mr.Turnip]

26. Already?

Can't they wait a few more weeks before giving in to pure fundie pandering?

[bluemarkers]

14. OK

I was just rereading Matthew 25, you know the story of a traditional marriage: The Bridegroom and the 10 Virgins? Oh, you don't? Neither does the gop or it's worshipers

Maybe they should be reminded?

eta: I'm being sarcastic to a point - it makes me sad that gays are being used as pawns. I've brought up Solomon and his wives as an example of traditional marriage and it's totally dismissed.... I'd forgotten about this parable until today.

[nanabugg]

16. Great point but it's a metaphor? nt

[bluemarkers]

19. yes

but the gop keeps bringing up "Biblical" definition of marriage, this is an example of what was common at the time the Bible was written....

Solomon otoh.... wow

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. As defined ...

[JRLeft]

2. Their old ads weren't working. They will create new lies.

[Iliyah]

4. GOPpers super duper pacs haven't given up yet and sure not the OH GOP.

Voter suppression is alive and ugly as hell. I went back to my history books, yep, the actual true history not the make believe ones that the GOP party of the uneducated want you to believe and people - white, black, brown, Asian fought for 1964/1965 voting civil rights and these motherfuckers are trying to kill it.

SHAME SHAME SHAME

[CoffeeCat]

5. This further validates the story about Obama's internal polls...

...that show a 9-point lead for Obama in Ohio.

Romney and his sidekick frat-boy Ryan have been focusing on and Iowa/Wisconsin/Michigan
strategy--hoping to make up for a most likely Obama Ohio win.

Too bad, it won't work.

I will still work hard and volunteer for Obama, but I am smelling a very decisive victory for Obama in November.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. According to another thread they seem to be conceding MI and PA. It sounds to good to be

true, But that's what I read.

[KamaAina]

18. Yup.

I'm wondering if they're giving up on Rmoney and Lyin' Ryan and putting all the $$$ into Congressional, especially Senate, races, like they did with Dole/Kemp in '96.

[xxqqqzme]

23. That is what I suspect.

If the rethugs lose the house, their take down of the country will be dealt a mighty blow. Elizabeth Warren is about to get hit by a fast moving fireball, leaving scorched earth in its wake. I hope her campaign is ready. She is a treasure.

[INdemo]

12. I think the grass roots efforts are stonger than the media will

report. If Florida polls should show a substantial lead (convention bump) is it over?
Being such a big autom0tive state,the large lead in the polls would make sense..

[My Pet Goat]

6. Wow..interesting.

I suscribe to the conventional wisdom that there is no way Romney would pull advertising from Ohio even if his internal polling showed him 15 points down because doing so would be akin to admitting likely national defeat.

So they must be switching to a Plan "B". There's no way however they would have originally planned to go off the air in northern Ohio for weeks during such a critical time in the campaign. No, this was a hurried, unexpected switch to Plan "B" probably because Plan "A" advertising was extremely ineffective.

[TeamPooka]

7. I agree. Romney panic means they will go dirty far sooner than expected

here come the super PACS money dump.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

9. A cautionary note....

Because the Romney camp has raised untold millions in campaign funds, they may be pulling back only temporarily and employing a rope-a-dope strategy where they release an onslaught of negative ads ads during the last few days of the campaign.

They also may be reserving some of those funds for a massive ground game assault.

Whatever the strategy is, I hope I'm wrong. I hope that they really don't see much hope in MI and PA at least.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. I don't believe for one minute they're giving OH or PA up so soon. Unless

they trust the voter suppression efforts will "win" it for them.

[gordianot]

10. Same in Michigan and now Ohio while they develop new lies?

Since the United States is to be run on a buisness model maybe the vultures have found a way to cash in on a failing Political Campaign?

[Mr.Bill]

22. Sarah Palin figured that one out a long time ago.

She's made far more money losing than she would have by winning.

[nanabugg]

15. They know it's in the bag for them because the machines are set and they are going to steal it again

[TomClash]

20. Tactics

After the ball bounces, they will try to take the air out of the ball. The money is enough to create an avalanche.

[sofa king]

24. Or a strategic withdrawal.

In military history, when one side recognizes a vulnerability in its position, it can make a "strategic withdrawal" to a new, more defensible position.

But here's why so many great captains in history avoided such movements, if possible: because by pulling back, that side surrenders the initiative to the other side.

Whatever Romney is doing, he is allowing President Obama to temporarily set the tone and the pace of the campaign in Ohio.

Remember also that Romney only needs to get close enough--within the margin of error--to steal it. The President has to be polling outside of that margin on the weekend before the election in order to win there.

[TomClash]

27. Yes,I remember. Nt

[BootinUp]

25. wow. What does it mean...

nt

[elleng]

28. Will take it,

but what will they do in October?